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FreedomWorks Final Four - What's your pick?

We are excited to announce our first Twitter promotion. FreedomWorks is conducting a contest to identify the key issue of 2012. America is faced with massive debt, intrusive laws and a disastrous Obama administration. With this in mind, we are asking everyone on Twitter to weigh in on the biggest issue of this election year. We want to hear from you!

FreedomWorks’ Final Four will start Tuesday, April 3, and go through Tuesday, April 10. Issues will be matched up in pairs and users will have two days to vote on each match up. The first match up will be Replacing Obamacare versus Taking the Senate and it will run from April 3, until April 4. The Federal Budget/Deficit will then face off against Repealing Obamacare April 5, through April 6. After these two initial matches the final pairing will face off April 9, and April 10.

To participate all users have to do is send a tweet containing our username, @FreedomWorks, and the hashtag (#) they want to vote for. Users will be able to follow the match ups’ progress by visiting our live tracking poll. A link to the poll will be posted here on the FreedomWorks blog the second day of the competition. For reference, here are the match ups again:

Is not the biggest issue Mitt Romney's blurting out during debate that he is determined to kill that white whale named 'public-private salary gap'?? I mean EVERYTHING depends upon the budget -- and what is demolishing our budget more than our ever-increasing government payroll and benefit burdens? If we vote for people devoted to bringing down our debt, even if it means we'd have to take private sector payroll-competitive jobs, we might survive. Will we?

President Obama released his latest budget, a plan that would spend $4 trillion next year and $50 trillion over the next decade. The plan is packed with goodies from free community college to free preschool to increased infrastructure spending. The budget blows past the spending caps that Obama signed into law in 2011.

After Eric Holder announced his resignation from Attorney General for the Obama administration, the President announced his nominee to replace him, Loretta Lynch. Ms. Lynch has experience as the chief federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, NY, and has a largely apolitical track record, leading experts to believe Lynch should have no issue securing Senate confirmation.

There's another round of health insurance policy cancellations coming, and the timing is more than a little awkward for vulnerable Senate Democrats, including Mark Begich (D-AK) and Kay Hagan (D-NC), who will learn their electoral fate next month.

Senator Jeanne Shaheen is proud of her “bipartisan” roots, because, after all, anything crafted in a bipartisan effort has to be a great deal for the nation. Every chance Ms. Shaheen gets, she likes to remind voters that “I have taken my bipartisanship to Washington with me. I have learned that the way to get things done is to work across the aisle.” However it is hard to expect something truly compromising and honestly bipartisan from a senator like Ms. Shaheen who, according to the Washington Post, has voted 97% of the time with Senator Harry Reid, and for President Obama’s bad policies.

Senator Mark Begich likes to claim to be “Independent as Alaska,” someone who puts the needs of his state ahead of partisan loyalty. Someone whose job it is to fight for what is best for Alaska, even if puts him at odds with his own party. However, the Begich Washington, D.C. sees is hardly the independent candidate Begich is trying to project back home. Let’s take a look at some of the ways candidate Begich and Begich differ.

FreedomWorks calls on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to bring up the bill to audit the Federal Reserve. The House of Representatives passed The Federal Reserve Transparency Act (H.R. 24) with a vote of 333-92. The same bill to Audit the Fed passed in 2012 but was never brought up in the Senate. Now, FreedomWorks is calling on the Senate to bring the bill up for a vote, especially considering Senator Reid’s strong support for an audit of the Federal Reserve in the past.

Americans are suckers for a clever slogan, whether it is Burger King’s “Have it your way” or Walmart’s “Save Money, Live Better.” Americans for generations have bought into these slogans. Even America herself has a slogan advertising, at home and around the world, “The American Dream, the land of opportunity.” Most people are aware of America’s slogan; and many were raised by generations that heartily agreed with its promise. However, as we stand as a nation in 2014, the brand is in question.

Senator Ted Cruz took the Senate floor to demand the Department of Justice (DoJ) appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). If Attorney General Eric Holder fails to do so, Cruz maintained that he should be impeached for failing to enforce the law.